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Blaenaven. Rafaël Delaedt (Arafi)November 2008 - Sixteen years for sex attacksA BLAENAVON man was jailed for 16 years and eight months for almost 40 counts of rape and sexual assault against five young girls. Alan Jenkins, 56, was sentenced at Newport Crown court. There were five victims in total who were attacked between May 1995 and June 2007.

Feb 2005 - A Gwent police worker has been jailed for a series of sex attacks against boys. Lyndon Lewis, a former warden at St Peter’s Church, Blaenavon, was jailed for 11 years for a catalogue of sex attacks on three boys. A jury found Lewis, from Blaenavon, guilty of 22 offences between 1987 and June, 2004.He was convicted of six serious sexual offences, 15 indecent assaults and one charge of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

January 2006 - A former radio DJ who collected more than 4,000 indecent images of children and wrote fantasies of child abuse is starting a 36-month jail sentence. Alan Fossey, 58, from Blaenavon, south Wales, admitted making indecent pseudo pictures of children, distributing them and publishing obscene articles. The court heard Fossey published stories on the internet which described the abuse, torture and murder of babies, young children and women, and included the names of real families and children he had come into contact with. Fossey was exposed when a family whose name he had used discovered the stories on the internet while researching their family name. Fossey previously worked for regional BBC radio.

The first report to the police that the boys were missing was made by Byers' adoptive father, John Mark Byers, around 7 pm.

John Mark Byers was a frequent paid informant for the West Memphis Police Department. Byers was abusive to his stepson, and admitted to whipping Christopher with a belt only a few hours before the boys went missing.

Michael Moore was the son of Todd and Dana Moore. Of the three murdered boys, Michael's parents were the only ones who were still married and had never had any criminal charges made against them.

Bill Clinton - from Arkansas.

4. The West Memphis Three are Jessie Misskelley, Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols.

The police interrogated Jessie Misskelley Jr., whose IQ was reported to be 72.

Dr. Richard Ofshe, an expert on false confessions and police coercion and Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, testified that the brief recording of Misskelley's interrogation was a "classic example" of police coercion.
Critics have also stated that Misskelley's "confession" was in many respects inconsistent with the particulars of the crime scene and murder victims.

Terry Hobbs Terry Hobbs is the stepfather of Stevie Branch.
Terry Hobbs comes from a strict and religious family.

His father, Joe Dean Hobbs, was a minister at the Apostolic Pentecost Church.

Terry's father became a skilled butcher whilein the military.

DNA testing in 2007 has identified a hair fragment found on Michael Moore's bindings to be consistent with Hobbs.

Terry Hobbs - West Memphis 3 murders Wiki
Pam Hobbs said that in 2002, at a point when she and Terry Hobbs were separating, she sent a package containing '14 or 15 knives' owned by her husband to one of the defense lawyers.

Pam Hobbs said that she had done so after discovering among the knives 'a little pocket knife' that her father had given to Stevie. (Terry Hobbs was the stepfather of murdered cub scout Stevie Branch)

She said Stevie 'carried it around with him all the time, because it was like part of his granddaddy. He would have had it May the fifth. He carried it with him from the day my daddy gave it to him until the day he was murdered.'

Asked why, five years ago, she had given the knives to a lawyer for the defense, she said it was because she 'didn’t trust the prosecution ... because of the evidence that was not presented at the trials.'

In the UK, the disappearance of little April Jones, in Machynlleth in Powys in Mid Wales, on 1 October 2012, temporarily distracted from the Jimmy Savile story.

A Mr. Mark Bridger has been arrested on suspicion of murdering April Jones.

However, on 22 October 2012, there is a report of an attempted kidnapping of a child, in Llandybie, Ammanford, in West Wales.

Aled Matthews, from Ammanford, who was jailed for downloading 100,000 indecent images.

A white van is involved in the latest incident.

And, back in mid-September there was another attempted kidnapping near the area where April Jones disappeared..

Bridger's car.

"Witnesses have reported seeing April Jones get into a car differently coloured to Bridger's.

"April was allegedly to have said that she knew 'them', about those with whom she got into the car." - Aferrismoon

It's been pointed out that the Landrover Discovery seized is neither grey nor in any way "light-coloured", as witnesses described the vehicle they saw April getting into, but dark blue, with a distinctive white and grey stripe down the side.

A former South Wales Police inspector was jailed for 30 months in December for conspiracy to encourage others to sexually assault a child under 13.

A South Wales Police traffic officer was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in 2010 for having sex with female drivers in exchange for excusing their motoring offences.

A Gwent Police detective constable was jailed for a year in April 2010 after being convicted of distributing, making and possessing indecent images. He was part of a British paedophile ring which swapped images of child abuse.

A Dyfed-Powys Police constable was given a three-year supervision order and required to register as a sex offender for five years for possessing indecent images of children in 2007.

Mark Bridger "is a keen weapons collector who kept samurai swords and deactivated guns in his home, a neighbour has disclosed."

Another former neighbour said: "He has had a lot of women and goes from one to another."But he was well-liked. Looking back now, it seems like a lot of relationships but these things can happen in life. He’s never been single for long and has always got on with people even though this is a very small community; everyone knows everyone else’s business here."When Bridger first arrived in Machynlleth, he told locals he had left the Army because of a back problem.

Colin Batley was self-styled high priest of group that handed children around for sex in Kidwelly, west Wales

The Bryn Estyn home in Wrexham in Clwyd in North Wales was the scene of child abuse

"Recent revelations involve the corruption of evidence by senior council officials in North Wales with regard to information supplied to the Waterhouse inquiry into allegations of VIP child abuse in Clwyd.

"In the inquiry allegations made by a number of young people were discredited because they had made allegations against social workers who records showed had not been employed where they said during the time they were in care.

"In fact, a secretary in North Wales Council had been instructed to alter the official records of dates and where and when specific youngsters were in care."

It was not therefore the youngsters who were lying, but the officials.

The late Brian Mitchell who died last year wrote a book on child abuse which exposed much of what we know now, this was in 1978he exposed Savile as sexually interfering with several boy scouts at a pack he helped with, and a girl daughter of the scoutmaster, this girls mother rang childline over the years and spoke to esther Rantzen who listened and did nothing.The police at Caernarfon said saville was "untouchable "no one should be untouchable in this day and age

You can go to the police time and again and usually they do nothingin 2000 at Kings Lynn norfolk a man named John Oddy went to the police about an evnagelical preacher who ran boys groups and was abusing them, police found printing equipment and photos of small boys in sexual poses, this man got away with a cautionhow can this be right ?

When i was at the BBC admittedly it was some years back word went round that savile was a shirt lifter, and no one batted an eyelid as the place was full of them, but on an outside broadcast from wales a school master said saville, with others had been abusing boys at a care home, the other cameraman i was with said" go to the police " he said the police dont want to know. I kept thinking of this every time i read about that disgusting man